This paper investigates current research on size theory. The research reviewed in this paper includes studies on 1-D size theory, multidimensional size theory and their applications to shape matching. This survey will also address the connections between the size theoretical approach and other approaches to shape matching.

The overall size and shape of the chicken gizzard calponin (CaP) h1 molecule was investigated by dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements. From the DLS experiments, a z-averaged translational diffusion coefficient is derived (5.75 +/- 0.3) x 10(-7) cm(2) s(-1), which corresponds to a hydrodynamic radius of 3.72 nm for calponin. The frictional ratio (1.8 for the unhydrated molecule and 1.5 fo...

We provide a mechanistic explanation for observed metrics for drumlins, which represent their sizes and shapes. Our explanation is based on a concept of drumlin growth occurring through a process of instability, whereby small amplitude wave forms first grow as ice slides over a bed of deformable sediments, following by a coarsening process, in which the wavelength as well as the relief of the d...

Determination of sizes and flexibilities of RNA molecules is important in understanding the nature of packing in folded structures and in elucidating interactions between RNA and DNA or proteins. Using the coordinates of the structures of RNA in the Protein Data Bank we find that the size of the folded RNA structures, measured using the radius of gyration R(G), follows the Flory scaling law, na...

A 52-year-old Caucasian female was referred to the Department of Oral Diagnosis and Surgery at the Araraquara Dental School (UNESP) for left sub-mandibular swelling assessment. She reported intermittent episodes of moderate to severe pain and swelling on eating of 6 months duration. However, symptomless sialoliths are common. 1 The severity of symptoms when present depend on the degree of obstr...

The phenomenon of growth in program size in genetic programming populations has been widely reported. In a variety of experiments and static analysis we test the standard protective code explanation and find it to be incomplete. We suggest bloat is primarily due to distribution of fitness in the space of possible programs and because of this, in the absence of bias, it is in general inherent in...

We present simple parametric equations in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions that provide a realistic model of the shape of human normal erythrocytes as well as of variations in size (anisocytosis) and shape (poikilocytosis) thereof. We illustrate our results with parameterizations of microcytes, macrocytes and stomatocytes, and show the applicability of these parameterizations to the numerical...

The traditional method of analysing cephalograms--conventional cephalometric analysis (CCA)--involves the calculation of linear distance measurements, angular measurements, area measurements, and ratios. Because shape information cannot be determined from these 'size-based' measurements, an increasing number of studies employ geometric morphometric tools in the cephalometric analysis of craniof...

number of methods are available to quantify exterior size and shape of living and non-living objects. LRelevant items for dentistry are the exterior of face and skull and the surface of dental casts. To the best of our knowledge, dentitions have not yet been measured in situ. The optical methods using incoherent light are mechanical sensing of casts, visual stereometry (on the subject or on ste...

SPRAY drying dilute suspensions of bentonit ic montmoriltonite produces a powder tha t shows totally random orientation of the crystallites within a sample large enough to diffract X-rays. The powder is collected by an electrostatic precipitator and can be handled in the normal mounting processes without introducing preferred orientation. Electron micrographs show this powder to be composed on ...